Event #03 - Sturm Servbot Design

[fAB]

INTRODUCTION

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TLT's third community participation Event focuses on the Sturm Force air pirates who will be Tuttle's rivals throughout his adventure on the Quint Islands. If you aren't already familiar with this gang, you can read some of their backstory and get a more visual introduction in this video.

This time around it's all about designing a "Sturmbot," pretty much the team's equivalent to a Servbot or Birdbot, as you'd probably already guessed. This is perhaps the most important TLT Event we'll be holding, as the winning design will be a major part of the game, to be prominently featured from the opening cut scene to the ending credits.

So just how should a Sturmbot be designed? Well, we have a couple of starting points outlined in the image below. Despite Sturm Force's fierce reputation, it'd be kind of nice if there was an element of cuteness to these little guys--not so much as to be totally out of place within their team, but enough that they'll provide a little contrast to the rest of the crew and help win the hearts of the players.




GUIDELINES

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* Design an appealing "Sturmbot" character that suits the Force while fitting in the Legends world.
* You may work solo or with up to two partners on a design.
* You may submit or participate in up to three designs.
* Don't get too carried away with design details. Servbots and Birdbots both have nice, simple designs.
* If you have a unique name for your design you may include it, but keep it simple (one word plus "bot" attached to it). We may or may not stick with the name chosen, and entries without unique names are perfectly fine.
* Naturally the easiest way to get your design ideas across is with images. If you don't have images, make sure to describe your idea well.
* We welcome entries from around the world, but if going for a written description, please use English so that we can properly consider your idea.

This Event will be open to submissions from August 1st through September 5th, 2012.

All entries should be posted here in this thread. We want them all in one place so entries sent to us by email, PM, or in comments directly on the TLT site will not be considered. Guest posting is enabled for the duration of this Event.


WINNERS

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* We'll be looking for just one (1) winning entry from this Event. One design will take all the glory.
* The winner (or winners, should the winning design happen to be a team effort) will get their name in the credits and the satisfaction of seeing their design concept come to life in the game. As for actual "prizes," see here.
* Winning entry may be subject to design revisions before appearing in-game.
* Designs will be judged by the project leaders, fAB & Blyka, based on a number of criteria including but not limited to: overall visual appeal, relevance to the Legends world and style, and adherence to guidelines.

Give it your all and best of luck, everyone!

[joshmnky]

Always fun to see what's going on next, but this is awesome! I'm gonna go all out for this competition. Time to reach deep, and pull out the vivid imagination I once had.

[herowho]

Here's my entry. I couldn't think of a name other than Sturmbot so......I just stuck with Sturmbot.

Anywho, I decided to try to model them a bit after Nodin, seeing as he's been in the Sturm Force since the beginning, and I wanted to color their clothes to resembling the Zephyr ships. Their spiky heads are just to resemble Nodin's hair style, they aren't weapons. I also decided to give them the round gloves like Bomberman, just to differentiate a little more from Servbots/Birdbots. Their purple-ish jacket was supposed to look like one of those leather jackets that people like the Fonz would wear. The white part in the middle is supposed to be a white shirt under a black vest under their purple jacket. When I was coloring the pants, I accidentally got a bit of purple that's not supposed to be there, but the devs are free to change the colors as much as they want.

For some reason, I couldn't stop imagining a big grin when I was thinking of a face, so I just stuck with the big grin. Of course, they change their facial expressions like all the other bots as well.

I made them look like this so that they would look tough, since the Sturm Force are supposedly some of the toughest air pirates around.

As the rules state, the devs are free to change what they wish about the bot, should it be picked.

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[Zaiy]

This is my quick concept of a Sturmbot. kinda cute, but kinda fits the 'rougher' looking theme.

the body instead of being designed like a maid i designed it kind of like a plumber or miner.

everything had a borderline nordic theme (despite the greekesk/wind aligned names) so i gave him a nordic-esk helmet and a dragon-esk helmet (based on the ships).

the drawings are a little rough cause i didnt have my tablet on me, but just something i through together. enjoy.

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[MusicaXIII]

This is my first post on this forum, and I'd like to say I love the idea of making our own servbot type creations. It just seems so fun to think of one and draw it.

[commanderlynx]

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From the beginning I wanted them to be little chubby guys because I thought that was cute without being too cute. Kept design as simple as possible, color scheme just stolen from the ships. Not even sure what I was doing with the hand, but at least it isn't a claw. Kept many things intact comparing the glyde and servbot designs including shoulders, buttons, color scheme placement, eyeball style, and some protrusion coming from the top/behind the head. Looks much better on pencil + paper, but it is the concept that matters. Cheers.

[JMC47]

Before I will present my entry into this humble little competition, I think some key points need to be made clear.

Because I am a moderator on these forums, I have much easier access to behind the scenes, as well as secret files that give myself a major advantage to when it comes to competitions such as these. With such powerful tools at my disposal, it’s no wonder that you normal members are unable to create something as magnificent as this. Any further efforts will be rendered futile by my flawless design, so we could easily say that this competition is all but over. Sadly, Blyka or fAB chose to give you people the illusion of having a chance of winning this competition. How noble of them.

So what is this wondrous design? Behold…. the Serfbot 2KX!

(Please excuse some of the rough edges. This is merely a concept design, and pales in comparison to the real thing.)



With inspiration and help from some of the greatest minds of MMLS, including the Mega Man Community on the whole, the Serfbot 2KX is quite easily, obviously the best candidate for the Sturmbot design. Custom-built within the guidelines as a humanoid robot with no internal (at least lethal) weaponry, the Serfbot 2KX is all but a perfect design!

While some of you riff-raff may think that the colour design is a bit eccentric, it is actually a carefully constructed camouflage system that allows it to blend into any terrain. It is also capable of reflecting rays of sunlight in order to blind opponents.

Now for the actual design, which, I must add, is completely original. The claws have been slightly modified in order to allow them to carry things that an everyday Servbot cannot, such as ice-cream, or a gun. Due to the Servbots’ big, bulky claws, they were unable to do anything useful. This useless trait of theirs is shown throughout various scenarios, such as getting blown up by bombs, or just being attacked by those stupid snakes in the Nakkai Ruins despite being under simple orders to merely follow the Gustaff. The Misadventures of Tron Bonne showed me just how horrible a design the Servbots had, and because of this, my design reflects what Tron should have designed.

Take a gun, for example. Not only is it much more efficient than throwing flamboyant bombs, or just hopping on something - they’re also very cheap in comparison! Imagine how much easier the Gold City stages in MoTB would have been if the Servbots were merely issued guns? Imagine how much shorter MML1 would have been! Walk up to the town, and they’d have slaughtered the population! Easily! The Bonne’s win! Period! The Serfbot 2KX gives the Sturm Force a real advantage over those regular, dime a dozen air-pirates in terms of usefulness.

Birdbots? Don't even get me started on those. They just suck. However, it did make me wonder what the Serfbot 2KX would run on. Something… efficient, powerful, and most of all, delicious. The original Serfbot was actually going to be fusion powered, much like Mega Man X, but the Serfbot 2KX runs on Bacon. Why? Easy to obtain, cheap in price, and contains a lot of energy. When you’re mass producing a robot, you have to take energy costs into consideration, and knowing how much land there will be for pig farming on Calbania Island, Bacon just makes that much more sense than using refractors or fusion power.

Now, I’m not saying that the Serfbot 2KX is ever going to lose in the midst of battle, but if there is ever a human error, and they are ordered to retreat; they are equipped with both an air compressor, and Bonne Mart Balloons, allowing them to fly away at a moment’s notice. Also, in case of an emergency situation, they can eject some of their fuel source as a means of distraction for their would-be attackers.

While you probably think that I’m crazy for this ice-cream idea. But, if you saw something with ice-cream, would you think it was a dangerous robot capable to killing you? No, you wouldn’t. In reality, the ice-cream actually disguises it as something friendly and benign. Much like the Servbots, except for actually being dangerous underneath that veil of innocence.

Assuming that you haven’t passed out from sheer awe and excitement, I must now do the meaningless task of crediting the brilliant minds around me who helped shape this design.

fAB: Without him talking me out of using the fusion reactor, I would have never come up with a cheap supplement!

Dashe: Her artistic advice helped me better convey my ideas.

Blyka: His constant motivation to finish developing his games gave me the inspiration I needed to get through the many sleepless nights working on this design.

Chiz: He rejected draft after draft of designs, pushing me to my limits in order to be a better artist. The Bacon power-supply will be credited in his honour.

Legends-Station: As always, this resource once again helped me get the information I needed from all different parts of the Legends Universe, allowing me to make my design truly meld with the lore.

And of course, myself! Without my vast artistic talent, this perfect design would have never come to light.

Also, I know that it’s early into the competition, but I’d appreciate it if you would just stop trying to delay the inevitable and just vote for my design. Not only as the best Sturmbot design, but also the greatest design of any Legends character! Ever! For now, however, it’s back to the shadows I go, but when duty calls again, I will return with something even more amazing than this. Believe it.

Edit: Upon further review, I realized that no one else could be trusted to come up with a theme song for this magnificent machine. Thus, while I lack musical talent, I picked out a song that I think goes along with the design quite well.

[obito]

So I decided to create a Bat Bot. These Bat Bots have purple bodies and are much faster at flying then Bird Bots. They fire the tips of their claws like tiny missiles to attack and their head spike is great for ramming enemies and small ships. Bat Bots fight best in the sky but are still good at using big machines for fighting on land. I thought it would be good if they had the ability to become invisible for short periods of time and during some cut scenes in the game since it would make them great for spying and gathering information.

Sorry I am having trouble uploading my image but here is a link to it:
kittykira.deviantart.com/#/d5aer85

[joshmnky]

Well, the odds of winning this competition look pretty abysmal following JMC47's post, but in the off chance fAB & Blyka end up getting blinded by its beauty, and accidentally declaring someone else the winner, I'll have my name close by

I wanted it to be tuff looking to reflect the Sturm Force, so I used Gutsman as an inspiration with a little Torchman around the crown. While only an inch or so taller than a servbot, this sturmbot is much more stout, and has hands like boxing gloves.

Sturmbot has the attitude of a sailor; the friendliest, funniest guy around those in his tight-knit group, but will give an outsider a steely gaze that can crush a man's resolve.


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[JMC47]

Most ingenious of you... I may need to revise the Serfbot 2KX design following this revelation.

[eris]

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I got really excited when I heard about this project so I rushed over here and saw that there was a need for designs and stuff.

Here's my design for a possible Sturmbot. I couldn't decide on a color scheme as I'm not entirely sure who's who yet, but yeah. I hope I didn't break any rules or go too far or anything.

Aaaa, and sorry for the page stretch.

[Zaiy]

This is my...second design. this design is if all of the designs so far performed a fusion, kinda!

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[Nathan]

I'm back and this time I made my own art!

Meet the Drakebots! I wanted to make a more animal-themed robot like Glyde's Birdbots, and when I tried to think of tough and mighty animals, dragons came to mind. When I drew it, though, they kinda wound up looking a bit like pigs. Oh well. I think it works.

I could see these guys struttin' about like they own the place and makin' all kinds of rough talk at the player. "Beat it, Tophat! This is Sturm turf!" They'd probably have a nasty temper, too, and would hop about all crazy-like when things don't go their way. Maybe bop each other on the head when the others screw up, three-stooges style.

[Eclipse]

I created the "Raptorbot" a year ago to go along with the Servbots and Birdbots but sadly i never finished its design. (Couldn't find the inspiration and the right design) Its the head and NOT the tank with a Servbot. (First pic) But if you must have a "kinda" finished design, i did last year also draw the "Raptorbot's" head onto another design of mine but i don't consider it to be its real and true body so either way its still not complete but hey i still wanted to enter this contest and so i am.

Anyway if you need to contact me then thats real easy. Its me Eclipse from the Devroom. So thats where you can find me. See ya around.

[prototypelegends]

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Take Knight out the other three are my choices for my submissions